STORY 1

Crown is a ship that is used to explore unknown parts of the ocean. It is equipped with a video camera. In June 2018, Crown was off the coast of Italy. The ship was 700 meters below the surface, pointing its video camera at the sea bed. George and other scientists on board of the ship were watching the images. 

And then, they saw something unusual on the seabed – a giant fish that looked very hungry.  It has got three big eyes, a horn and a mouth full of sharp teeth.

It was great success to meet this rare fish. The scientists understood that it was not a normal fish and gave it a name – Ronny – and followed it. 

The cave where Ronny lived was covered with sea weeds and small coral. Suddenly George heard the melodious sound. Could the fish sing? It was unbelievable!  No one moved because they were so busy listening. The more George listened the more he understood that Ronny wanted to say something! 

The scientists ran to find any equipment that could help them understand what Ronny was saying!

This is a very important discovery for them, nobody has heard a fish talk before. The problem was that most of their equipment was not designed to understand fish-talk, but they used the computer which they use for strange sounds, a speaker and a slow video camera. 

After a while, they were able to hear what Ronny was saying, with the help of their scientific equipment. 

“I have a very important mission; can you help me?” Ronny whispered in a strange voice.

George stared at his friend Sam in shock – this fish could speak English!

“An evil boy is going to evaporate all the water in the world.” Ronny continued.

Then, Ronny started to cry.

George and his team were already shocked that the fish was talking, but now it was showing emotions.

Could George and his team help this magical talking-fish?

A while later, George got Ronny inside. As Ronny was saying

“I need your help, it’s me that you have to take to the magical lake”

“We will help you as soon as we can” George said.

Soon after, they got to the island, they left the ship there.

George was holding Ronny in a giant glass jar filled with water, it was  heavy, but he got Ronny. They had a book called “Paranormal Natural Phenomenon”. They read the part of the book called ”Mysterious fish”.

One page said something about the species that Ronny was.

“If we will get Ronny to the lake, he will become a human and he could fight against the evil boy.” George said.

“That’s why I need your help, if I don’t become a human, we will lose everything. I won’t live anymore, because all the water is out” Ronny said.

“We have to go right away then” Sam said.

Soon they were near the lake, Ronny jumped into the magical lake and he turned into a human. 

Now Ronny was like normal humans, but his face was still half purple as he was before, hair was purple, but the point of his hair was blue, just like his horn. Ronny got out of the lake, he had the team’s uniform, because it was his vision in the lake. His shirt was like sequins, pants were black. He looked like a 17-years old human, but his true age is 597, Ronny’s species lives as long as possible.

“Let’s go, we have to win Logan” Ronny said.

“Wasn’t he the evil boy?” George asked.

“Yes” Ronny answered.

Ronny started running and it seemed like he knew where Logan is. “How do you know where Logan is?” Asked George. “I just know. I can hear him. He´s about 5 km away”, he answered. “What? You can hear him from that far? Let´s get there by our ship then.” said George. Soon, the whole crew got into their ship, and Ronny was like a GPS. In about 25 minutes, they got to the destination and left the ship behind some cliffs near the seashore. “I see him!”, whispered Ronny. The boy was standing on a wooden pier in a torn white tee, black trousers and he looked pretty messed up. 

There was a big solar panel to his right, and he was holding some kind of a controller in his left. The crew sneaked behind him and Ronny said: “What do you think you´re doing?” Logan turned around and said in a happy voice:

“I´m saving The Earth of course!”

“Saving?” Asked everyone at the same time.

“Yes! I think you know The Earth is struggling with global warming, right?”

“Sadly, yes.” Said George

“Well, I came up with a temporary solution to mild it. And I´ve been working on this for a while, y´know” (that´s why he looks messy) “Look at my trousers! They used to be white! Ok, let me finally explain. So, this big solar panel gets charged throughout the day by The Sun, and the energy it gained gets sent to this small but strong box next to it, which sends some special waves that cause the clouds to slowly melt and turn into water. Tadaa! Rain! Thanks to this progress, The Earth gets a lot of water, then it’s getting right now!”

“Oh...”, realizes everyone. “So, you´re not trying to kill us by evaporating all the water in the world?”, asks Ronny.

“What? of course not! Someone must have seen me and made up this story. Any who, let´s test this thing out if it still works, shall we?”, said Logan. “Oh, and before we start, I´m Logan. May I know with who I’m here with?”

“We know your name. And let´s not worry about that for now.”, said George. 

“Okay. no problem! So, I've been letting this solar panel charge throughout the day, so let´s press this button (on the controller) and ......”. Suddenly, the clouds started turning into water and it was raining! “Tadaa! announced Logan. 

Logan is now a well-known scientist, and the Solar panel method is used to make rain since then! 

STORY 2

A Cheese Thief

It was an ordinary day at the Brave Kids' Agency. Actually it was not an ordinary house but a secret shelter far from other from people. And we, brave kids, travel through another dimension to get somewhere. Well, everyone was busy.  A group Talented Kids were investigating an extra unusual case. A group Superheroes as always were saving the world. But a group Eccentrics and Nuisances (that is us) were doing nothing. We aren't always allowed to investigate.

Each group has got 10 kids, except ours (6 of us). I'm Anna, a captain of the group. Each group has got a pet. Super heroes have got a dog Killyor which can fly. And we have got a grey mouse Eye Top. Why this name? Because she never stays still... but let's get closer to what I want to tell you about.

It was lunchtime and only our group was in the canteen. All the rest were busy. We were chatting, laughing loudly when suddenly the cook shouted, "Help! Help!"

We didn't know what to do, nobody was in the canteen except us and everything was on our own. Vitia, a boy from our group ran to the kitchen and took our cook out on his arms. She was terrified and told us what happened. But we rocked of laughter when got to know... 

"Cheese???, asked Daryna (a girl from our group). "Y-y-es...", stumbled the cook, " N-n-nooo, this is not usual cheese, this cheese is able to make your wishes true. I often add it to the dishes to give more luck your groups while you are fulfilling your missions. By the way, you ate it today!"

"At last!”, shouted Yulia, "At last we are investigating a case and the cheese is magic!"

And, for sure, we had to investigate this unusual case and cheese was really magic.

"First, let's go to the kitchen and look into any clues," said Zhenia.

We went to the kitchen and saw empty bags and plates. I let Eye Top, but she couldn't smell anything. Then Dima sprayed special perfumes which helped to see the footprints.

"It looks like a thief was wearing special boots of unsmelt person. But where is he now?", said Dima.

" Maybe he ran through dimension gate?" exclaimed I.

"It can be possible," said Vitia. And we all ran to the dimension gate.

And it really happened, it looked like the thief has used the gate but hasn't closed it.

"Hey, look! He is in New York!" exclaimed Yulia. We jumped into the gate but appeared in front of the wall.

 "No! It's impossible!" cried Daryna. " It's something unusual...", murmured Dima and looked into the bricks of the wall.

We watched Dima and didn't understand what he was doing but Dima pushed one of the bricks and the wall moved away into the darkness. I sent the mouse to look out and Zhenia found the switch. We saw the cheese crumbs! I whispered to call Eye Top back, she came back and smelled the cheese then she led us on the right. We followed her. 

Yulia was the first who noticed a door and something with numbers and letters next to it. She tried to open the door but the system showed...    ENTER THE PASSWORD.

We didn't have any idea what the password could be.

"Maybe it's a Cheese Thief," suggested Vitia.

"Or Eccentrics and Nuisances" exclaimed Daryna.

"Cheese could be," I guessed.

"It is possible!" agreed Dima. If you think logically, it will seem like the password is cheese.

We tried to enter "cheese" but nothing happened. We tried it again but the system said, "Invalid password, try again". We didn't know what to do, then Dima entered the password "Eccentrics and Nuisances" but then... the system said: 1 MINUTE LEFT TO THE EXPLOSION...

We were really terrified and didn't know what to do! And the system continued reciting: 50 sec...40 sec...

"Run!!!", cried Zhenia. We immediately ran out to the exit and heard:

                               10.                           9..                    8.

I was the last who ran out and in a second, we heard very loud noise but nobody from that side paid attention.

"Very strange..." murmured Daryna. "Oh, look, crumbs are over there!" exclaimed Vitia.

I whispered to call Eye Top but she didn't come. More and more whispers but she still wasn't there.

"But-t-t wh-where is Eye Top?, my voice was trembling. And then I realized and started crying. "Oh, no! We lost her when we were running from the explosion," I said. 

Luckily, in a second our mouse appeared. She had burnt her whiskers on her one side. We were happy she was all right and not seriously injured. We continued our investigation as we saw more and more crumbs. Then Eye Top missed the trace and turned on the left. We followed her and firstly we didn't pay attention that there were no crumbs. And Eye Top led us round and round.

"Oh, no! We got lost", said Yulia. "It looks like we do, perhaps because of burnt whiskers and the mouse can't smell well," said Zhenia. "

Now we should find the way by ourselves," said Vitia.

We were wandering to find the crumbs but couldn't find anything. " Nothing helps, we can't find any crumbs!" said Daryna.

"Did you hear this? I asked, " over there, behind the trees, did you hear???"

We ran fast to the trees and saw a big piece of cheese. It meant we were on our right way! We followed the trace of cheese crumbs and when we arrived, we shouted all together, "IS THAT YOU?!!"

In the end, the stolen cheese was taken back and now it is in a safe place. After this case we were allowed to investigate different cases. Hmm... cheese makes dreams true...

This book is written and illustrated by students from

Bilopillia specialized school 1, Bilopillia, Ukraine

FEDAC HORTA, Barcelona, Spain

Tevaniemen koulu, Ikaalinen, Finland

ZŠ, Kroměříž, Komenského nám. 440, Kroměříž, Czech Republic

Ternopil Classical Gymnazium, Ternopil, Ukraine